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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion 13 May 2022, 18:27
Replies: 7
Views: 389
Posted By grond
That is possible, of course. There just wasn't...

That is possible, of course. There just wasn't any market for such feature on the Amiga because of the dreaded 7 MHz 512KB base configuration.

A lot of Amiga demos use less than 256 colours for...
Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion 13 May 2022, 17:54
Replies: 7
Views: 389
Posted By grond
The required computing power for texture mapping...

The required computing power for texture mapping doesn't really get less with less than 256 colours because you need to read the texel and then write it to the screen buffer. Since this is a chunky...
Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion 10 May 2022, 16:48
Replies: 138
Views: 32,398
Posted By grond
Worst was the Atari 2600 joystick which didn't...

Worst was the Atari 2600 joystick which didn't last more than a few days. Best was Quickshot II (the microswitch version). In between the two is the Competition Pro. It's durable but not very...
Forum: Amiga scene 28 April 2022, 17:14
Replies: 44
Views: 4,351
Posted By grond
Ah, yes, you are right, I now remember. But I...

Ah, yes, you are right, I now remember. But I believe that LEs are counted differently between the Cyclone III and V series and the 77k of the V are pretty much comparable to the 55k of the III but I...
Forum: Amiga scene 28 April 2022, 09:56
Replies: 44
Views: 4,351
Posted By grond
For all I know the V1200 has the same larger FPGA...

For all I know the V1200 has the same larger FPGA as the V4 range. Only V500 and V600 have the smaller FPGA. But it was stated that development will happen on the basis of the V4 and some additional...
Forum: support.Hardware 26 April 2022, 12:33
Replies: 22
Views: 1,344
Posted By grond
I don't know the tsunami, but 40ish MHz 030...

I don't know the tsunami, but 40ish MHz 030 certainly doesn't sound wrong. I used to love my Blizzard 1230 back in the day but given the choice between two 030 accelerators, I would choose the...
Forum: support.Hardware 26 April 2022, 12:00
Replies: 22
Views: 1,344
Posted By grond
If you want power, get a Vampire. A 50 MHz 030 is...

If you want power, get a Vampire. A 50 MHz 030 is perhaps something like 10 MIPS, a 56 MHz 030 is 11 MIPS. Wow, a whole 1 MIPS more for what, a 100€ extra?

A Vampire is 150 MIPS.
Forum: support.Hardware 26 April 2022, 09:38
Replies: 22
Views: 1,344
Posted By grond
If you are going for the mid-range (030-based...

If you are going for the mid-range (030-based accelerators which indeed can be the compatibility sweetspot for your usecase), I would just forget about the FPU. You'll hardly need it, if ever. I also...
Forum: Nostalgia & memories 19 April 2022, 15:49
Replies: 3,006
Views: 582,865
Posted By grond
Actually we still have new WHDload bugfixes made...

Actually we still have new WHDload bugfixes made and I would assume we would know about software breaking from more than 2MB chipmem present by now. UAE has offered this option for a long time now.
Forum: Nostalgia & memories 18 April 2022, 12:23
Replies: 3,006
Views: 582,865
Posted By grond
But then P96 will decide it won't use the blitter...

But then P96 will decide it won't use the blitter for anything above 2MB and use the CPU which in the case of a Vampire seems to be the better option anyway. Or am I missing anything?
Forum: News 16 April 2022, 09:57
Replies: 311
Views: 23,783
Posted By grond
grelbfarlk knew this, of course, and you fell for...

grelbfarlk knew this, of course, and you fell for it.
Forum: News 14 April 2022, 09:56
Replies: 311
Views: 23,783
Posted By grond
This sort of thing always happens with any...

This sort of thing always happens with any Vampire-related topics. The same people always show up. If you start arguing with the bunch in favour of the Vampire, the thread will then be pointed out as...
Forum: News 10 April 2022, 11:50
Replies: 311
Views: 23,783
Posted By grond
But a lot of the old software works fine on the...

But a lot of the old software works fine on the new hardware. It is only some new specific software that doesn't run on old hardware. Of course, this new software is in the niche inside the niche but...
Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion 08 April 2022, 13:06
Replies: 61
Views: 4,816
Posted By grond
The video is nice but for a modern game you would...

The video is nice but for a modern game you would need much smoother animation. And then you probably wouldn't want to be limited to one perspective. Nobody could pixel all those animation frames,...
Forum: Amiga scene 06 April 2022, 14:22
Replies: 32
Views: 2,308
Posted By grond
Interesting idea!

Interesting idea!
Forum: Amiga scene 06 April 2022, 13:49
Replies: 32
Views: 2,308
Posted By grond
Yes, it is but it is made a whole lot easier by...

Yes, it is but it is made a whole lot easier by the fact that this game is strictly horizontally scrolling. I'm not sure that this sort of thing wouldeven be possible at all in an 8-way scroller.
Forum: News 06 April 2022, 10:18
Replies: 311
Views: 23,783
Posted By grond
Finally one interesting point. You are obviously...

Finally one interesting point. You are obviously opposed to using high level languages for ease of programming because it wastes performance. Can we conclude that you would rather have an ISA that is...
Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion 05 April 2022, 16:43
Replies: 61
Views: 4,816
Posted By grond
I very much liked "Curse of Monkey Island" and...

I very much liked "Curse of Monkey Island" and thought it put Monkey Island on a new higher level graphicwise and technically. Ron Gilbert would have told a different story, well, that's not very...
Forum: Amiga scene 04 April 2022, 20:29
Replies: 32
Views: 2,308
Posted By grond
This looks very professionally made!

This looks very professionally made!
Forum: Nostalgia & memories 04 April 2022, 18:26
Replies: 3,006
Views: 582,865
Posted By grond
If you selected more than 1 entry, "Delete" will...

If you selected more than 1 entry, "Delete" will step you through the selected entries one by one, "All" will not query but proceed to delete all entries.
Forum: News 04 April 2022, 16:11
Replies: 311
Views: 23,783
Posted By grond
Actually writing simple 3D games may be easier...

Actually writing simple 3D games may be easier than writing good looking and entertaining 2D games. That's the primary reason why there are so many 1st person shooters. You need a few textures, a...
Forum: News 04 April 2022, 12:31
Replies: 311
Views: 23,783
Posted By grond
May be you missed this but nonarkitten claimed...

May be you missed this but nonarkitten claimed that the 080 has the same performance as a Pentium 75. And this is not true and the only point I am arguing.
Forum: News 04 April 2022, 11:06
Replies: 311
Views: 23,783
Posted By grond
These values are wrong. The Pentium doesn't do...

These values are wrong. The Pentium doesn't do more instructions per cycle than the 060 and most certainly not more than the 080. For all I know the 2nd pipeline of the 080 can do all instructions...
Forum: News 01 April 2022, 13:45
Replies: 311
Views: 23,783
Posted By grond
Well, then you won an argument against a point I...

Well, then you won an argument against a point I didn't make. My point was that the 080 is better than a Pentium 75 (even if sometimes only slightly) in every isolated aspect that matters (memory...
Forum: News 01 April 2022, 12:05
Replies: 311
Views: 23,783
Posted By grond
You may be talking about the 060 and the Pentium...

You may be talking about the 060 and the Pentium MMX. I am not. I was talking about the wrong comparison of the 080 to a Pentium 75.
Forum: News 01 April 2022, 11:23
Replies: 311
Views: 23,783
Posted By grond
It's not irrelevant. A instruction cache of size...

It's not irrelevant. A instruction cache of size X will hold more instructions if the code is denser increasing the likelihood of a cache hit. The same is true for bandwidth. If you can load X MB/s...
Forum: News 01 April 2022, 10:50
Replies: 311
Views: 23,783
Posted By grond
I mean exactly what it says. E.g. the 68k ISA has...

I mean exactly what it says. E.g. the 68k ISA has more powerful address modes than x86. For this reason the x86 needs to sometimes use two instructions where the 68k needs just one. The one 68k...
Forum: News 01 April 2022, 09:36
Replies: 311
Views: 23,783
Posted By grond
You are writing nonsense because of your personal...

You are writing nonsense because of your personal disagreements with Gunnar. As you know the 68080 has a much, much faster memory interface than a Pentium 75 (which has a theoretical maximum of 8...
Forum: Amiga scene 26 March 2022, 14:17
Replies: 325
Views: 24,926
Posted By grond
I don't think it would be impossible. It would...

I don't think it would be impossible. It would just have been easier to do with Commodore's smaller resources than Microsoft's if there had been a clean data ownership concept from the start.



...
Forum: Amiga scene 25 March 2022, 16:20
Replies: 325
Views: 24,926
Posted By grond
Yes, exactly. It is perfectly legal in AmigaOS to...

Yes, exactly. It is perfectly legal in AmigaOS to allocate memory in one task, pass a pointer to that memory to a second task, have the first task quit without freeing the allocated memory, keep...
Forum: Amiga scene 25 March 2022, 09:30
Replies: 325
Views: 24,926
Posted By grond
Just to add to my post above: memory protection...

Just to add to my post above: memory protection and resource tracking were known concepts long before the Amiga was created just as was preemptive multitasking. And these concepts were also put to...
Forum: Amiga scene 25 March 2022, 09:06
Replies: 325
Views: 24,926
Posted By grond
An OS that was designed to make use of an MMU if...

An OS that was designed to make use of an MMU if present and provide memory protection and virtual RAM would have provided a true reason for the big boxes to be so much more expensive than the...
Forum: Amiga scene 24 March 2022, 16:41
Replies: 325
Views: 24,926
Posted By grond
And you don't think that there could be some...

And you don't think that there could be some overlap between the preferences of (a reasonable part of) the masses and your own? That, if Commodore had been aware of that potential market, would have...
Forum: Amiga scene 23 March 2022, 10:21
Replies: 325
Views: 24,926
Posted By grond
That is a very good point! Perhaps OS...

That is a very good point! Perhaps OS improvements were even more important than hardware improvements. I think generally the direction they took the OS was right but the improvements were also...
Forum: Amiga scene 22 March 2022, 10:21
Replies: 325
Views: 24,926
Posted By grond
If this had been Commodore at the same point in...

If this had been Commodore at the same point in time (1988), the CEO would have been fired for losing the Nintendo deal, then a new CEO would have been hired to set up a competitor product to the...
Forum: Amiga scene 21 March 2022, 13:55
Replies: 325
Views: 24,926
Posted By grond
Well, I think the timing is quite okay when...

Well, I think the timing is quite okay when looking at the C=64 and the Amiga. In the first half of the 80s home computers were 8 bit and only professional computers were 16 bit or even 32 bit. The...
Forum: Amiga scene 21 March 2022, 12:45
Replies: 325
Views: 24,926
Posted By grond
A lot of the flops probably go back to the...

A lot of the flops probably go back to the separation into management and engineering that is standard in the industry. On the one side you have the "product owners" or "product managers" which...
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 18 March 2022, 18:00
Replies: 4
Views: 690
Posted By grond
I believe you are right but I wonder about the...

I believe you are right but I wonder about the 68008. Does it really behave exactly like a 68000 with cycle penalties for the halved memory bus? I think it is likely but I don't know.
Forum: Amiga scene 17 March 2022, 12:38
Replies: 325
Views: 24,926
Posted By grond
Yes, moving to SMD sure was inevitable. But why...

Yes, moving to SMD sure was inevitable. But why did they have to go for a half sized Amiga? Cramming an A500 plus extras into that small form factor surely had a lot to do with it becoming more...
Forum: Amiga scene 16 March 2022, 11:45
Replies: 325
Views: 24,926
Posted By grond
Yes, sure, that's how the story went but I assume...

Yes, sure, that's how the story went but I assume that the A300 plan was connected to dropping the last 8-bit-computer plans. They wanted to get the Amiga down in price to a level where it would...
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